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127. What is the worst case scenario?
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128. Do you have a Safe Working Load success story or case study ready to tell and share?
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129. What is the definition of success?
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130. How do you gather the stories?
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131. Are there any constraints known that bear on the ability to perform Safe Working Load work? How is the team addressing them?
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132. How can the value of Safe Working Load be defined?
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133. Are approval levels defined for contracts and supplements to contracts?
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134. How did the Safe Working Load manager receive input to the development of a Safe Working Load improvement plan and the estimated completion dates/times of each activity?
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135. What are (control) requirements for Safe Working Load Information?
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136. Have all of the relationships been defined properly?
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Add up total points for this section: _____ = Total points for this section
Divided by: ______ (number of statements answered) = ______ Average score for this section
Transfer your score to the Safe Working Load Index at the beginning of the Self-Assessment.
CRITERION #3: MEASURE:
INTENT: Gather the correct data. Measure the current performance and evolution of the situation.
In my belief, the answer to this question is clearly defined:
5 Strongly Agree
4 Agree
3 Neutral
2 Disagree
1 Strongly Disagree
1. Among the Safe Working Load product and service cost to be estimated, which is considered hardest to estimate?
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2. How do you prevent mis-estimating cost?
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3. What harm might be caused?
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4. How do you verify your resources?
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5. What is the cause of any Safe Working Load gaps?
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6. How do you measure variability?
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7. What are the types and number of measures to use?
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8. What happens if cost savings do not materialize?
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9. What are the strategic priorities for this year?
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10. What is your Safe Working Load quality cost segregation study?
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11. What are the costs of delaying Safe Working Load action?
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12. How long to keep data and how to manage retention costs?
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13. What are hidden Safe Working Load quality costs?
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14. What evidence is there and what is measured?
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15. When a disaster occurs, who gets priority?
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16. Have design-to-cost goals been established?
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17. Are there any easy-to-implement alternatives to Safe Working Load? Sometimes other solutions are available that do not require the cost implications of a full-blown project?
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18. Is there an opportunity to verify requirements?
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19. Where can you go to verify the info?
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20. What do people want to verify?
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21. Have you included everything in your Safe Working Load cost models?
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22. How do you verify and validate the Safe Working Load data?
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23. Are the units of measure consistent?
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24. What would it cost to replace your technology?
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25. Are supply costs steady or fluctuating?
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26. What users will be impacted?
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27. What are the estimated costs of proposed changes?
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28. How will measures be used to manage and adapt?
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29. What is your decision requirements diagram?
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30. Do you effectively measure and reward individual and team performance?
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31. How do you aggregate measures across priorities?
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32. What are you verifying?
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33. Are you taking your company in the direction of better and revenue or cheaper and cost?
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34. What could cause delays in the schedule?
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35. What are your key Safe Working Load organizational performance measures, including key short and longer-term financial measures?
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36. How will success or failure be measured?
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37. How do you verify if Safe Working Load is built right?
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38. What would be a real cause for concern?
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39. Was a business case (cost/benefit) developed?
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40. How are measurements made?
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41. Are you able to realize any cost savings?
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42. What does a Test Case verify?
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43. Who pays the cost?
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